This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

2015-06-08 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests. I was a bit sloppy on the QA, I just copy/pasted the notes I took live

New D tool releases

2015-06-08 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dfix 0.2.2: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfix/releases/tag/v0.2.2 * Fixed a bug that caused the string concatenation fix to be applied inside of deprecated attributes. I plan to revert this fix if dmd starts accepting `deprecated(string1 ~ string2)` Dfmt 0.4.0-beta1 and 0.3.6

Re: This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

2015-06-08 Thread Vlad Levenfeld via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 02:27:26 UTC, Meta wrote: first-class tuples and pattern matching / destructuring are very important quality of life issues and a great selling point for D. Even going with what we currently have for template type-matching, but for values, would be a great step in

Re: This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

2015-06-08 Thread Baz via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests. I was a

Re: This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

2015-06-08 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 23:36:39 UTC, Baz wrote: By the way the user (bot?) 'qnzc_bot' who usually relays the D announces from here to /r/d_language/ seems out of order since a big week. Does anyone know what's happen ? I do. I blocked it. It was behaving very poorly and consuming a

Re: This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

2015-06-08 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jun-07.html These dconf articles are taking a long time to write, hence the lateness again, but here's the rest of Wednesday and some roundup of changes from the forum and pull requests. I was a

Re: This Week in D #19: Reggae, ranges, and DConf Wed. Afternoon summary

2015-06-08 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 19:21:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: These dconf articles are taking a long time to write I just ran it through wc: this one was 4,000 words! Last week was 2,000 words about dconf.

Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for a cleanup. It used to have many small projects that were of low traffic yet enjoyed the same visibility as the main ones. So I took the following actions: * Consolidated all small tools (obj2asm, optlink, etc) under tools. * Consolidated

Re: Arch Linux D package update

2015-06-08 Thread yawniek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 14:46:39 UTC, Dicebot wrote: gdc - now uses 5.1 gcc base and 2.066.1 frontend - patched to correctly use system zlib library (resulted in linker errors before) dtools - switched back to use dmd as default compiler dub - switched back to use dmd

Re: Reggae binary backend: build your project with a D compiled executable

2015-06-08 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 06:59:26 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:51:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 12:06:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 07:00:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I'm currently considering (because of dmd, druntime and phobos)

Re: Reggae binary backend: build your project with a D compiled executable

2015-06-08 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 05:51:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 12:06:52 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at 07:00:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I'm currently considering (because of dmd, druntime and phobos) how to strip it down to its bare essentials and have a

Re: Reggae binary backend: build your project with a D compiled executable

2015-06-08 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 08:47:21 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 08:00:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: But... if we're to think of replacing the current Makefiles for dmd, druntime and phobos, and if the build descriptions that are to replace them are to be truly cross-platform,

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-08 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ Many major and minor improvements. Some major ones: - dlang.org theme, fully responsive and mobile-friendly - keyboard navigation in all views - automatically saved post drafts - get notified of

Re: Reggae binary backend: build your project with a D compiled executable

2015-06-08 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 08:00:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: But... if we're to think of replacing the current Makefiles for dmd, druntime and phobos, and if the build descriptions that are to replace them are to be truly cross-platform, then a binary backend is needed and a stripped down

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-08 Thread extrawurst via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 10:41:19 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: http://beta.forum.dlang.org/ Many major and minor improvements. Some major ones: - dlang.org theme, fully responsive and mobile-friendly - keyboard navigation in all

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-08 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 10:41:19 UTC, John Colvin wrote: Any chance of transferring the viewed status (i.e. bold for unread) of posts over from the old version? No, as the post indices are different. But they will be preserved when forum.dlang.org is updated.

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:45:58 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: It may be that we have lost potential participants because they clicked away from the page within seconds of realising there was no oauth (I definitely would). It's doable but just seems a little overkill to me. Every time I

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-08 Thread Kapps via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 20:54:50 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: The reply count number is now a secret link to the thread. Awesome. :) This combined with the other beta changes, and I think the new beta forum is a very nice improvement over the current one, even though the 0 reply link